From: le@lekno.ws   
      
   Louis Epstein wrote:   
   >   
   > 2018...LDS president,Russell M. Nelson(1924)   
   > British monarch/matriarch,Elizabeth II(1926)   
   > Pope,Francis I(1936)   
   > Chief Justice,John G. Roberts (1955)   
   >   
   > LDS succession moves the Queen back into second place...and some   
   > nonagenarians get moved out of the "older than" category.   
   >   
   > 2022...LDS president,Russell M. Nelson(1924)   
   > Pope,Francis I(1936)   
   > British monarch,Charles III(1948)   
   > Chief Justice,John G. Roberts (1955)   
   >   
   > Nelson survives the Queen.   
   > If Camilla counts as "matriarch" she was born 1947.   
   >   
   > 2025...LDS president,Russell M. Nelson(1924)   
   > British monarch,Charles III(1948)   
   > Chief Justice,John G. Roberts (Jan 1955)   
   > Pope,Leo XIV(Sept 1955)   
   >   
   >   
   > The election of one of the younger Cardinals lowers the floor of   
   > the list by less than eight months.   
   > Nelson's death will not lower the floor of the list(11 of the 14 men in   
   > succession are older than Roberts and the only younger ones rank in   
   > the last five).   
      
   I forgot to reflect that Elder Gary Stevenson was born the month   
   before the new Pope,leaving only the two Apostles at the very bottom   
   of the list still younger.   
      
   > Right now you have to be over seven months past a hundred years   
   > old to be older than the whole list,and if younger than four months   
   > from seventy are younger than them all.   
   >   
   > Meanwhile the older-thans die every day.   
   >   
   > -=-=-   
   > The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,   
   > at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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